President Museveni has directed the Inspectorate of Government and Ethics Ministry to probe into Speaker Anita Among’s UK wealth after he was briefed by the UK government prior to its recent sanctions on Ugandan officials.

The UK government slapped Speaker Among and two former Karamoja Affairs ministers Mary Goretti Kitutu and Agnes Nandutu with travel ban and asset freezes for what it called “epitome of corruption and [that has] no place in society”.

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The Central Bank of United Arab Emirates-UAE has also issued warning to all financial institutions in the Middle East to thwart any transactions coming from Among, Nandutu or Kitutu.

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In a May 2, 2024 letter to Foreign Affairs minister Jeje Odongo, Mr Museveni said he had had an urgent meeting with the British High Commissioner, Ms Kate Airey OBE, at State House Nakasero on the day UK government announced the sanctions.

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“She told me that they were going to sanction Speaker Among. I said: ‘why?’. She said Anita Among has got a house or houses in UK and has got bank accounts from which she pays schools fees for her children who are studying there,” the President wrote.

“I told her that the issue of houses would be very interesting if, especially, Anita Among did not declare them in her Leadership Code documents,” he added.

The President said if Ms Among indeed had houses in the UK, then the next issue would be to ascertain where she got the money to build them.

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If both of questions are answered and no wrongdoing is found, he added, the remaining issue would be a matter of political and ideological judgement.

Mr Museveni revealed he had asked the UK government to provide more information about Ms Among’s alleged wealth in the UK.

“Why would a Ugandan leader build or buy houses in UK or anywhere else abroad, when Uganda, the still under-developed country where she would have earned the money, still needs those investments?” the President asked.

“It would definitely be a moral and ideological mistake.”

The President directed the Inspector General of Government (IGG) and Minister of Integrity to “inform me” if Anita Among declared in her forms of the Leadership Code her owning of a house or houses in the UK.

The Letter – https://x.com/RiseNewsUganda/status/1788988495370854426

Ms Among, who is copied in the letter, has previously denied owning anything in the UK and cited political witch-hunt for pushing through with the Anti-Homosexuality Act in May last year.

“I don’t have any properties in UK, not even a pussycat,” she said on May 3. “Go ahead and freeze them, and see if I will complain.”

On March 17, President Museveni accepted Speaker Among’s invite to her home in Bukedea where he defended the embattled former Opposition politician who had “fallen into things” in a whirlwind.

At Bukedea, Ms Among commissioned a teaching hospital and her secondary school, with the facilities named after the President’s children.

At the time, the Speaker was under fire over allegations of gross corruption related to per diem and what her office called corporate social responsibility in which she doled out billions of taxpayer money to whoever met her fancy.

Many who understand Museveni’s tactics smelt something amiss, citing the President was probably in Bukedea to confirm rumours of Ms Among’s wealth.

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